Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 July 1868 — Page 2

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CRAWFORDSVILLE, IKTD.:

THURSDAY, JULY 23,1868.

CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING.

There will be a meeting of the Re publican Central Committee, in its roomss in Crawford's block, on Saturday, July 25th, 1868, at 1 o'clock, to select a candidate for Representative in place of Mr. John J. Darter, who has placed his declination in the hands of the committee. Let every member of the committee be promptly on hand. R. B. F. PEIKCE,

Chairman.

DUTY OAJLLS, I,ET PATRIOTS ANSWER.

The long roll is sounding, callingpatriots into line. The enemy is now in the field, marshaling liis forces for a spirited, energetic and persistent contest. Every means, fair and foul, will be resorted to in behalf of his candidates. We have to resort to only fair means to beat him. But to the^e we must resort with our ancient confidence and our ancient determination. No time to be lost—not a day. Let the Central Committee, to whom the work of organization has been given, proceed immediately to business. Eveiy man who can give a dollar, every man who can make a speech, every man who can write a line, every man who can raise a shout, every man who can build a bon-fire, every man wave a flag and every man who can walk in a procession, has campaign labor to perform. Republican victory means peace—Democratic victory means war. Republicans of Montgomery county, arouse to the work before 3'ou. Organize—• organize to-day. Meet demonstration with grander demonstration, meet sophistry with argument, meet appeals to passion with appeals to patriotism, meet proposition to enslave with proposition to free, meet proposition to repudiate with proposition to pay—in a word, meet error with truth from this until November, and victory shall pereli upon our glorious banner. •ma: PARTY'S cox-

FESSIOS OF ITS lillW. The Democratic State Convention of Indiana, which met at Indianapolis on the 8th day of January, 1808, adopted the following resolution

That, we sliall ever hold in sacred recollection the dead who sacrificed thenlives in defeiise of our once glorious Union, that the present and future generations mighteaajoy the rich inheritance of a government that secures an equality of rights and privileges to all the citizens thereof.

The cry used to ba that tho soldiers of the Union sacrificed their lives in an unholy war to free the nigger. On the 21st day of January, 1863, the Democracy of Putnam cbuuty met in Convention, Archibald Johnson, Democratic candidate for the Senate in this couuty, in the Chair, and unanimously adopted the following resolution: licsolved, As tlic deliberate sense of this meeting, that not another soldier and not another dollar ought to be furnished for the further prosecution of this WAll FOll JNTEGllO EMANCIPATION.

It was supposed then that tlie war would prove a failure, but since it has been successful these hypocritical demagogues comc out and beslimc the soldiers all over with their sycaphantic adulation. For the sake of getting a few soldier votes Arch. Johnson and his party now distinctly admit, by the foregoing resolution, that the war was not for negro emancipation, but for'the "defense of our glorious Union

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and, second, that

it was defended with the best of intentions, namely, that "future gencia tions might enjoy the rich inheritance of a government that secures equalit}' and rights and privileges to all the citizens thereof." What a crooked track for men who alway keep their eyes on a fixed principle., :,r

THE '^PATRIOTISM" WHICH NOMIJVATED SEYMOUR.

Th(T Copperhead organs arc prating aboutthe" 'iotisni" and magnanimity w. icu brought about the nomination of Seymour. There is no doubt whatever that the two things which defeated Pendleton's nomination were the malignity of Vallandighani and the money of Belmont. Concerning the latter point, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the second Copperhead organ in the West, said on Tuesday (during the convention): "If he [Mr. Pendleton] is beaten, it will be because money is stronger than principles in the convention." On the same day the editor of the La Crosse Democrat (first copperhead organ), wrote that "over $100,000 were paid out to buy delegates away from Pendleton between the 1st and 4th of July," and that "it is now as we write, as it has been for months, and will ever be in the future, a Warfare between the slimy, corrupt, reckless, dishonest, money-using political tricksters of New York, and the voung Democracy of the Gieat West,"

SEYMOUR is A man of high unblemished honor.—[Cincinnati Enquirer. He may have been, at some previous time, but he is not now, unless he lied when he said he could not accept the nomination without dishonor.

EQUAll TAXATION.

The Democracy resolved at New "York tliSt every species of property should be taxed according to value. This is the fourth plank in their platform. There can be no misconstruction placed upon it. It is distinctly stated, "all property." They not only propose to tax the bonds, but the lands, the horses and cattle of the farmer, and in fact every species of property that they may have. Instead of levying the tax on liquors, tobacco, iron, sales, stamps, special licenses, salaries, incomes of over $1,000, banks, railroads, insurance companies, express companies, legacies, passports, fines and penalties, they propose to tax the lands and other propert}' of the farmer. The}' demand that in addition to what the farmer pays for State and county purposes, he shall assist the wealthy and bear a part of their load. Instead of being exempt as the farmers now are, the Democracy demand that they pay to the Collector of Internal Revenue the sum of one dollar and forty cents on every hundred dollars which they may possess, whether it be on lands or other property. Are the farmers of Montgomery county ready and willing to be placed on the "equal taxation" list If so, vote the Democratic, ticket. Let the farmers inquire into this question and they will see that they are now comparatively free from taxation, whereas if the Democratic idea prevails that of "equal taxation," they will learn to their utter dismay that the}* will be introduced to the national tax-gatherer for the first time.

"A WAY DECEIVER."

The Cincinnati Enquirer says the Democratic platform contains Mr. Pendleton's greenback doctrine and that Gov. Seymour indorses the platform. If so, it shows Mr. Seymour to be a most wretched demagogue, or a very weak, vacillating man, for it has not been six weeks since lie unequivocally took ground in a public speech in favor of "one currency for all classes," and that not a depreciated currency. "We must have a uniform ciurcncy," said the Governor. "The only question is shall it be uniformly good or uniformly bad." In the same speech lie denounced the greenbacks, and said tlay went about defrauding labor, etc. If lie has all at once come over to Mr. Pendleton's greenback scheme, has has surely not done it in good faith, but only to enable him to get the votes of Western Democrats. Will honest men vote for such a deceiver 'i He is either against Pendleton's scheme or he is a inisoi'sililo, low demagogue, nml the .Enqu irer may have it which it pleases.

GOVERNMENT FALSEHOODS. Every greenback is a government falsehood, going about the country defrauding the laborer, the mechanic, the pensioner and farmer.—[Horatio Seymour in his Cooper Institute speech.

Yet our Democratic friends tell us Horatio Seymour is in favor of issuing more "government falsehoods,"

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to "go about tliE country defrauding the laborer, the mechanic^ and the iarmer." So it appears from the declarations of the Democratic leaders hereabouts and. the declarations of their candidate for President, that the Democratic part}' is in favor of having "the laborer, the mechanic and the farmer" defrauded by an unlimited issue of "government falsehoods." We always maintained that the policy of the Democratic party was detrimental to the "laborer, the mechanic and the farmer," but never supposed they would have the honesty to acknowledge it to be their object to defraud all these classes.

A MIRACULOUS CONVERSION. Gov. Seymour has promptly and cordially indorsed the greenback platform adopted by the Convention which nominated him for President.—[Cincinnati Enquirer.

On the 25th of June last, only ten days before the Democratic Convention, Gov. Seymour said in a public spcech .at Cooper Institute, New York city:

If we debase the currency by unwise issues, we shall equally perplex business and destroy sober industry, and make all prices mere matters of gambling tricks and chances.

In the same speech he further said: Every paper dollar (greenback) now put out is a government fasehood, for it claims to be Worth more than its real value and it goes about the country defrauding the laborer, the pensioner, the mechanic and farmer. Of all the devices to cheat honest labor, to paralize industry. to degrade public morals, and to turn business pursuits into gambling, none have been so hurtful as a shifting standard of value, a debased and lying currency.

If Gov. Seymour now indorses Pendleton's wild and reckless scheme for issuing an almost unlimitted amount of "debased and lying currency," to "go about the country defrauding the laborer, the pensioner, the mechanic and the farmer," he has been most miraculously converted to that faith since the 25th day of June last. K!

THE Boston Transcript propounds the following mathematical question in politics: "If it requires a Chief Justice to renounce most of his political principles in order to, obtain four votes in a National Democratic Convention, what amount of apostasy and degradation would be requisite to,secure a nomination?"

THE DEMOCRACY RATIFIETH.

The Union-as-it was-ists and the Constitution-as-it-is-ists made a straining effort to ratify the New York nominations last Saturday evening. After a brief pyrotechnic display by the fizzling of a couple of Roman candles in front of the Review office, announcement was made from the door of the Court House that the "ratify" would at once commence. The Court room filled up to about half its capacity with the forms of those who still were gasping "greenbacks." Sorrowful speeches were made by Geo. McWilliams and Gen. Manson, in which tiiey ratified the New York Convention with a vengeance. In regard to the little argument used by these gentlemen in support of Democracy we have not the space to notice, but leave them in the hands of Republican speakers, who we doubt not will show up their sophistries in a true light. Since their great sale at New York they are in no frame of mind to get up a good heart-felt enthusiasm over the new masters, the "bloated bondholders."

The meeting reminded one more of a funeral gathering than a meeting of rejoicing. When they remembered how cruelly their idol had been slaughtered, deep sepulchral sighs came up from the profound recesses of their hearts. They stalked into the room like wandering ghosts, doubless feeling that they were treading among the tombs of vanished greenbacks.

The following "teching bad" could have been read on the occasion with good propriety:

Not a smile was seen, nOr a greenback "note," As his course to Wall street he harried But Belmont discharged his farewell shot,

O'er the grave where our hero was buried.

Wc buried him, darkly, at dead of night, The sod with our black botUes turning By the brandy blossoms' feeble light

On our uoses dimly burning.

No useless coffin enclosed his breast, But in Bonds and Greenbacks we wouud him For he lay like a statesman taking hi» rest.

With his Platform tucked in around him.

OEN. WALLACE'S SPEECH.

The limits of our space forbid a -lengthy noticc of the speccliniadc by Gen. Wallacc at the Court House last Tuesday evening in reply to the specclics made by Gen. Manson, Geo. McWilliams, "and another Dutchman," on last Saturday night. Merely alluding to the speeches of Mr. McWilliams and the Dutchman, Gen. Wallacc confined his remarks to the financial question in reply to Gen. Malison's sophistries. The General will conclude his speech next Saturday night, at which time he will deal in general politics.

DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

The Democratic Congressional Convention for this District took place last Thursday at Covington. The attendance is said to have been respectable, all the counties in the District being represented except Benton.1 Thomas B. Ward, the same who tacked the notice on his office door that he had gone to New York and would return as soon as Pendleton was nominated, turned up at the Convention and was chosen President. Resolutions wrerc adopted endorsing in general terms the nomination of Seymour and Blair, re-affirm ing the platform of principles laid down at New York, and going through the usual routine of such documents. The second resolution declares the national debt to be a national curse, and demands that the debt of the nation, except that which is expressly made payable in coin, shall be paid in lawful money of the United States. It demands the abolition of the National Banks and requires the nominee of the Convention to pledge himself, if elected, to carry out to the best of his ability the letter and spirit of this resolution. Nominations being next in order, Montgomery county placed in nomination Gen. M. D. Manson, and Carroll nominated B. B. Daily, Esq. The ballot was then proceeded with resulting in the choice of Gen. Manson by a vote of 110 to 33. Speeches were made by Gen. Manson, B. B. Daily, and James McCabe, of Warren, in which they swallowed Seymour, Blair, Belmont and the whole bond-holder's crew down at one gulp. Considering the little hope the Democracy have for success in this District the Convention in point of numbers, we understand, was a very creditable affair.

After the adjournment of the Congressional Convention the counties composing the Eighth Judicial Circuit met in Convention and nominated James Wright, Esq., of this city, as a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney. The counties composing this Common Pleas District, placed in nomination Jo Ristine, of Covington, as a candidate for Common Pleas Judge, and Geo. D. Hurley, of this city, as a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney.

BRICK POMEROT, the great leader of the Northwestern Democracy, says in his paper—the acknowledged organ of the party—"It is well known that Governor Seymour is opposed to touching the financial questionwants to leave it standing as it is, all in favor of the bondholders, and against the people—gold, and no taxes to pay, for the former, and rags, and and all the taxes to pay, for the latter."

THE XlVth ARTICLE.

-The report from the State Department shows that twenty-six States, including Arkansas, Florida, and North Carolina have filed their ratification of the pending fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. It has also been ratified by Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina but the papers have not yet reached Washington. This makes more than euough, twen ty-seven being the required number, and the amendment, therefore, becomes a part of the Constitution as soon as the needful forms can be carried out. The fates are against the Democracy. It is useless for them to resist the onward car of progress. —Since the above was in type we see that Secretary Seward has sent a communication to the Senate, in which he announces the ratification of the amendment known as the 14th article, by twenty-nine of the States. It is now a part of the organic law of the land. It secures the negroes in their rights of citizenship, although it does not give them suffrage reduces the basis of representation in direct proportion to any disfranchisement of male citizens, twenty-one years of age and over, except such disfranchisement be for crime or participation in the rebellion disfranchises all who did participate in the rebellion after having taken, at any time previous, an oath to support the Constitution of the United States makes sacred the public debt and prohibits the payment of the rebel debt, and confers upon Congress the power to enforce by proper legislation these provisions. The disability imposed for participation in the rebellion can be removed at any time by a vote of two-thirds of Congress.

THE HENDRICKS FESTIVAL.

Soon after the election of Tom Hcndricks to the Senate, his friends at Shelbyville, Ind., gave liiip a public festival. Speeches were made by Mr. Hendricks and regular resolutions adopted by those participating in the festival. Among the resolutions wc find the following: 9. That, in the name of justice, right and humanity we enter here our solemn Ifrotest, and register our unrelenting opposition to the passage by Congress of any conscript or drafting act, whereby tlie men of our country shall be taken from their quiet homes and the peaceful pursuits of life, to fight for the freedom of the negro, while Massachusetts and other New England States, which have been enriching themselves at our expense, and are still clamoring for the prosecution of the war to the last man and the last dollar, have not filled their quota, and are not even making an effort to do so. Such a law, so manifestly unjust. unconstitutional and oppressive, would be null and void, and not entitled to the respect of a free people.

In consequence of such resolutions as this, the government had to send large numbers of soldiers home from the army to aid in enforcing the draft. The rebels were encouraged, the war was prolonged and our heavy burden of taxation greatly increased. Mr. Hendricks now asks the people to make him Governor of Indiana, and his friends adopt fulsome resolutions praising the soldiers for ..saving the Union.

IMPORTANT EVENTSI

The last days of June and the first week of Juty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, have embraced events destined to receive important recognition in American history Wehave witnessed the singular spectacle of the admission of six States by the votes of a party accused of the crime of seeking to deprive them of representation in the government, in spite of the protests of the leaders of the party claiming to be the only constitutional and law-abiding party in the country. Under the conservative laws of the Republican majority, military rule has ceased in these States, and civil law has been quietly restored, the steps preliminary to the final and enduring rc-establislnnent of peace. But behold! While this bcneficent work was being accomplished, the representatives of a party met in New York, the chief object of which is to undo the work of reconstruction, and restore the country to the condition of anarchy and civil war!

SLICJHTLY MISTAKEN.

The Iowa State lleyister has the

following: 7 Hon. John U. Pettit, one of the reddest mouthed among the Indiana Copperheads, declares upon his Democratic honor, that he and his Hoosier cohorts would rather vote for Grant for President than for Chase. The first, he says, is at least a true soldier, while tlie latter is only a hypocritical civilian. John may have to cat those words without sauce yet.'

The Register is slightly mistaken in its man. Hon. John U. Pettit, of this State, is one of the "reddest mouthed" among the Indiana Republicans: The Register had reference to John Pettit, of Lafayette, the "old brass piece," the man who at one time declared the Declaration of Independence a "self evident lie."

FRANK BLAIR made a speech at Indianapolis* August 20,1860, a portion of which was thus reported in the Sentinel of that city:

The staple of all the orators was the everlasting nigger. Upon this theme Frank Blair dwelt with intense satisfaction. His Speech was bitter and denunciatory. The Democracy he stigmatized as "hell hounds."

THE Copperhead leaders about here deny that M. M. Pomeroy is a true specimen "Brick" of the Democratic edifice,

THOSE LOYAL DEMOCRATS.

On the 25th day of December, 1S60, immediately after the secession of South Carolina, Ex-Governor Reynolds, of Illinois, addressed a letter to Jeff Davis, closing as follows

If the slave States would unite and form a Convention they might have the power to coerce the North into terms to amend the Constitution so as to protect slavery more effectually. You will pardon the letter as it proceeds from friendly motives. Your friend,

JOHN REYNOLDS.

As early as January, I860, before Mr. Lincoln was even nominated, Frank Pierce wrote to off. Davis as follows:

Those who defy law and scout constitutional obligations, will, if we ever reach the arbitrament of arms, find occupation enough at home."

This letter may be found in full in the first Vol. of the "American Conflict," page 512. Such letters from leading Northern Democrats induced the Southern leaders to believe that all the Democratic party of the North would take up arms in their behalf, whenever a conflict came, and this belief hurried them into secession. Who is more responsible for the war and its heavy debt than these same Northern Democrats Not even Jeff. Davis, for he never would have commenced the war but for the assurance of their aid when lie should do so.

GOV. SEYMOUR AND THE BONDHOLDERS.

Gov. Seymour, in his Cooper Institute speech, delivered on the 25th June, asks:

Why is the bondholder wronged by the tainted credit of the government, so that he cannot sell his bonds for as much bj-one-third as the citizen of Great Britain gets for the bonds of his government, which bears a lower interest And why is his claim made odious in the eyes of the people by the fact that his interest is paid in specie, while they arc compelled to take debased paper

Gov. Sc^ymour thinks the bondholders arc wronged, and he appears, as the Freeman's Journal says, as their attorney and makes a good showing in their behalf. But he did not dare to tell his friends, the bondholders, why our credit is tainted, lie did not dare to tell them that our credit received its taint from Democratic resolutions, speeches and editorials, in favor of repudiation. How much has Brick Pomcry and Geo. H. Pendleton tainted our credit.*' Gov. Seymour could tell if he would.

H1UH TAXES.

We hear a great deal now about Democracy as a remedy for hard times, high taxes and dishonesty in office. There is one place on the earth, thank fortune, where this remedy has been tried for a good many vears—we mean the city of New /^Tork—and the result is told, by the New York Ledger, a literary paper in nowise connected with any political part}'. It says

As things are going on, man will have to be worth a large fori vine to he able to own any real estate i.i the eily of New York. The taxes are miming up tcilh a rapidity which is frightful. The- people are robbed on every hand. Is tlie upshot of the matter to be a'revolution, and the hanging of the plunders and their abettors to the city lamp-posts 'i

New York city has a Democratic majority of -10,000, and the men who nominated Horatio Seymour live there.

A COMI'ROMISIX(i PARTY.

The Copperhead party has always been in favor of compromising. This characteristic of the party was well displayed by the New York Convention. It nominated a bondholders' attorney and advocate to satisfy the bondholders—made a greenback plat form (so the Enquirer says) to gratify the grcenbackcrs, and nominated Frank P. Blair, the hair-brained revolutionist, to please the rebels. Each one of the three elements of the party got something, but the bondholders came mighty near getting the lion's share. Speaking butcherly, wc might say that the bondholders got the sides, hams and shoulders, the rebels the tail, and the poor gi'cen-backers the hair.

THE DIFFERENCE.

The delegates to the Republican National Convention went up to Chicago to register the will of the loyal people of the country. The delegates to the Copperhead National Convention went to New York to learn from Wall street bondholders and rebel soldiers for whom the Democratic party should vote this ln.ll. That is the difference between the two parties.

THE New York World, discussing the Tammany Platform says: "The bondholders need have no fears that their property is to be swept away by a new inundation of paper money. Payment of the public debt in greenbacks without increasing their present amount, payment in greenbacks out of the proceeds of taxation, will leave the greatest portion of the debt stand ing lor many years to come."

FOREVER «ONE.

Tom Ward, of Lafayette, previous to joining the "Pendleton Escort," placed a card on his office door, Which read as follows "Gone to the Great Democratic Convention at New York. "Will return after Pendleton is nominated."

John Pettit has been appointed administrator to look after the young man's effects.

COME up and subscribe for the JOURNATV. You can pay lor it with a couple of "government falsehoods."

WHO NOMINATED SEYMOUR?

Col. Halpine, editor of the New York Citizen, who supports Seymour and Blair, says:

Our nation would be saved were. Horatio Seymour elected but can this be done? Alone the struggle would be doubtful, and he has been, weakened by the unwise selection of the candidate for the Vice Presidency. The New York politicians who were succcssully cunning, and who long ago openly said they did not care for the Presidency provided they could carry the State—save the ring in New York and secure the plunder at Albany—may congratulate themselves on the result. They have secured the State, but at a fearful risk. The ingenuity with which the entire plot was carried, without the consent or knowledge of the person most interested, may be a triumph of political skill, biit is little evidence of good faith or statesmanlike views.

Horatio, the cunning wire-pulling politican, knew all about "the plot" from the beginning, and his tliricc repeated refusal of the crown, like that of Caesar, Avas all affected. It was a part of the programme of the bondholders.

TIIE New York Commomoealth is getting up a life of Seymour. It furnishes the following chapter as an "advance sheet

CHAPTER XII.

SKIIVICKS OF GOV. HORATIO SEYMOUR IN BEHALF OF HIS COUNTRY DURING TUB ITEBKLLIOX.

Mr. Seymour was of no servicc to his country during the rebellion.

Mr. Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, in speaking of the magnanimity of the Southern members of the Democratic Convention in going for F. P. Blair, says that "Wade Hampton, whose house he burned and whose liquors he drank, and Gen. Forrest, were among the speakers for him."

Jo Williams, the colored delegate from Tennessee, when applied to for the sale of his vote in the New York Convention, is reported to have said "Dem ar white trash from Ingcanny nmy sell out ef day's a mind to, but dis chile is a 'spectablc colored gemman—no vote to sell—Go way dar, white man, buy up your Ingcanny men. Let dis chile alone.

TIIE boasted strength of Horatio Seymour, in New York, is' shown in this that he was five times the Democratic candidate for Governor, resulting in three defeats and two elections. On every occasion lie ran lowest on the ticket, sometimes several thousand votes below associates who were elected.

REDUCTION OF THE WHISKY TAX.

Tlie new tax bill which has passed both Houses of Congress and now only awaits the signature of the President to become a law, reduces the tax on whisky to fifty ccnts a gallon. This amount can be collected, as it is to be paid at the distillery.. The Democratic whisky ring will now be broken up.

IT is said that when a nigger down South votes the Democratic ticket, he immediately loses all his offensive smell, and becomes a gentleman wortly of any man's company—far superior to the "greasy mechanic and small-fisted farmer of the Northern States."

That lie was not killed by a mob, Brigham Young told the wives and children of the late Elder Kimball, was a thing to be profoundly thankful for—that is to say, that he didn't live in New York city during Setymon r's draft riots in 1S63.

THE Cincinnati Chronicle says: When people are drowned cannon arc sometimes fired for the purpose of raising their corpses. The Democrats have been firing cannon over Seymour and Blair. But there is no hope of getting their heads above water.

WHY should the Copperheads have a high opinion of Grant. Because lie accomplished what they said was beyond human power—the suppression of the rebellion. He made a success which they declared in the Chicago Convention of 1861 was a failure.

NOISE vs. BRAINS.

The Copperheads say that Grant is only a good soldier—that he can't make a speech like Seymour, etc. A jackass can make a noise with his month, but it required brains to conquer the rebellion.

XKVKiiin the history of the country were nominations more enthusiastically received by the Democracy than those of Seymour and Blair.—[Cincinnati Enquirer. SS

The editor of the Enquirer has surely forgotten all about the 8th verse of the 21st chapter of Revelation.

THE New York Citizen (Dem.) calls Seymour "an apple of gold in a basket of silver." Say a basket ol greenbacks and you have it right. But- O, what an apple! Rotten to the core,

FRANK BLAIR said to the crowd which he was addressing in New York, on Friday, "I wish I could groan as you do." He will have a chance to develop his groaning powers on the November election.

GEN. MANSON says he carries rebel lead in his body. He proposes to use it during the canvass for the benefit of the rebel party. Well, this seems to be "rending unto Caesar the thing that is Cajsar's."

REWARD OFFEKED.

A liberal reward is offered for the silver quarter that General Manson carried round during tho war exhibiting and contrasting with greenback currency the latter he characterized as rags and worthless, while the former he said was good Democratic money. Since the General lias become so enamored with green 1 tacks nothing has been seen of the silver quarter. The public is anxluus to know what has become of it.

THE following card is receiving a wide circulation in Eastern journals II. S. GRAXT. 8CUUYLT:U COI.VAX.

CHANT & COLFAX,

TANXKRS, WASHINGTON, J). C., Respectfully inform the people of the United States that they -will IK: engaged in tanning some old Democratic hides, until after the 10th day of Xovein her, 18G8.

The Senior member of the firm having considerable experience in tlie business, thinks that, by the help of his partner, all work will be in a satisfactory manner.

Reference—Gens, liuekner, Pembertou. Li. E. Lee, and other distinguished persons of tlie same persuasion.

lm La Crosse Democrat says the Blair family have been for twenty years plotting to destroy the peace of the country. And yet it supports Frank P. Blair for Vice- President.

WHY was the Democratic National Convention like the price of gold Becausc it was governed by Wall street gambles.

tKTTlilt I'KO-11 AS,ADAtfA. Jlcciiii^ of" the

JiCsisiii(11 re—t'oiisi (ii.

lionuf An or:lt:u'i!« ami Colfax. ^IONTGOMKKY, AI,.\., July 13, 1808. Jo the. Editors Crai'J'ordsvillc Journal:

Tiie Legislature met to-day ami ratified the Constitutional Amendment by an almost unanimous vote. A salute was iircd by the military from the capitol grounds where a vast crowd were assembled, and the earth fairly trembled as cheer after cheer was given for the New Government and Grant and Colfax. Old citizens pronounce the present Legislature as line and intelligent a body of men as ever met in the State for the same purpose and that her future may safely be confided to their hands. Arrangements are being rapidly completed for a thorough canvass, and Alabama will roll up 20,000 majority for Grant and Coifax in November. li la-unucwN.

The N'ev. Tax S^s-.v.

Whisky, fifty cents a gallon at the distillery, besides which the following special taxes are imposed Distillers producing 100 barrels of spirits, of forty proof gallons to the barrel, annually, are to pay 8100, and 8-i upon every additional barrel. The same tax is levied on all spirits now in bonded warehouses. Rectifiers of 200 barrels, of forty proof gallons to the barrel, arc to pay a special tax of $200, and fifty cents upon every additional barrel. Compounders of liquors pay a special tax of 825 retail dealers, 825 wholesale dealers, whose sales do not exceed $25,000 per an6 1 0 0 an 8 1 0 ad it on a or each 88,000 of sales.

On tobacco the taxes arcivUpon snuffs, 32 cents per pound chewing tobacco, 32 cents smoking tobacco, 16 cents. The following special taxes are imposed 85 upon* retail dealers whose annual sales do not exceed 81, 000, and 82 for each additional 81,000 dealers in leaf tobacco whose annual sales do not exceed 810,000, to pay a tax of 825, and 82 for each additional 81,000 and manufacturers a tax of 8.10 each.

A i51iin(!er.

A gentleman at Greencastle yesterday, as he supposed purchased a ticket for Lafayette, over tho Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railwa\% but did not take the precaution to examine it before getting on the train. Upon handing it to the conductor it only showed upon its lace good for Crawfordsville. The passenger protested, but was compelled by the conductor to pay an additional dollar and forty cants. After thinking the matter over the conductor concluded to telegraph the agent at Greencastlc, who iu reply said he had sold two tickets to Lafayette and one to Crawfordsville, whereas the conductor's report showed two tickets to Crawfordsville and one to Lafayette. Under the circumstances the conductor refunded the money to the Lafayette passenger, and looks to the agent to correct the mistake. Such blunders arc very easy to be made, but arc the means of much ill feeJiug among travelers. The railroad company should see that it has trustworthy and careful agents.—Lafayette Journal.

A train broke through a bridge on the Philadelphia. fe Erie road on tlie 8th inst, by which five persons were killed and a large number wounded. It is supposed the bridge had been tampered with to plunder the train, several passengers being robbed while in the wrcek, and the baggage was broken open and rifled of valuables.

On the Sth, Keverdy Johnson took leave of the Senate, preparatory to sailing for England. The scene was quite touching. IJ was so much affected when he rose to say farewell, that his colleague took the words and read them, after which Seuators generally gathered around Mr. Johnson and bade him good bye.

Telegrams received in Chicago from various points in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, give the most glowing accounts of the prospects for a mammoth crop of small grams and corn. Should no blight occur, the yield will exceed any thing ever before known.

Perry Fuller's nomination as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, was acted on by the Senate on Wcndnesday, and almost unanimously rejected.

Fort Wajnc has"thirty-six miles of streets.

INDIANA NEWS.

Anew jail has been finished at Williamsport. Blackberries are plenty in the Madison market.

Madison has roasting-ears. A wedding cake was purloined from the office af the Attica Ledger last week.

The city authorities of Attica have introduced the ball and chain for offenders.

J. C. Burnet, Deputy Auditor of State, has returned from New York, where he lias been at a meeting of the State Debt Sinking Fund Commissioners. Seven hundred and fourteen thousand dollars worth of the State five per cent, stocks were redemed by the board. Notice has been given that the six per cent, war will be redeemed, on presentation, for thirty days after that time, what remains of the surplus on hand, will be applied to the further redemtion of the five per cent stocks-

Clay county Democrats continue to rave about Dan. Voorhees' slaughter of Pendleton..

The passenger receipts of the Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago Railway last month were $9,527.

The receipts of the Citizens' Street Railway Company, Indianapolis, last month, were 87,536 80.

Seven hundred and eighty-eight petitions in bankruptcy have been filed in this State.

One hundred and twenty bankrupts were discharged by Judge McDonald, on Wednesday.

There arc twenty-five cliildrcn in the Soldiers' Orphan Asylum at Knightstown.

Chicken cholcra prevails in Floyd county. The artesian well, at Lafayette, is in a very neglected and repulsive condition.

The Soldiers' Home, at Knightstown, has over one hundred inmates. Three fine churches are to be erected in Lafayette this season.

Eugene Heffeuan beat his wife almost to death, in New Albany, last Tuesday.

Thirty-six dollars and five cents was the amount a Vincennes merchant had to pay for kissing a lady customer.

Flux, dysentery, and brain fever are the prevailing luxuries of the season at Indianapolis.

Indianapolis City* Council has levied a school tax of ten per cent, on the hundred dollars.

The Indianapolis Evening Commercial wants the police to suppress the Court Street Varieties Theatre.

Lightning struck the house of Mrs. Arbuckles, Indianapolis, on Tuesday, severely injuring that lady.

The Indianapolis rolling mill, in the three months ending June 30th, sold 8-10,891 worth of new iron.

Hon. G. A. Buskirk, of Monroe, has been nominated for Representative to the next Legislature. An excellent selection.

Sullivan comity Democracy get madder and more of it as they continue to hear of Hendricks' and Voorlices' treachery to Pendleton.

New Albany is to be "ensmallcd" as that portion of the city called "Lower New Albany" has become tired of the present rule, and wants to secede.

Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, convenes at Bedford, on tlie 10th of September, Bishop Kingsley presiding. -Southeast Indiana Conference meets on the same day at Franklin, Johnson county, Bishop Clark, presiding.

A Hamilton county boy, named Benson, Avas arrested at Indianapolis on Thursday, for stealing 81,200 from his father. I-Ie is only twelve years old but seems to be incorrrigible, and his father will endeavor to have him sent to tlie House of Refuge.

Several farmers in Floyd County have been poisoned by handling potato bugs.

Opinion of Cicn. Grant Abroad.

The London News says of Grant's nomination: "There are some circumstances which render the nomination of General Grant singularly opportune. He is not a politician, and the nation is tired of politicians. He is a soldier, with a soldier's idea of du ty, but with a civilian's respect for legislative authority and the national will. He has probably no definite policy of his own but it is of a President with a policy that the Republic is suffering. He is accustomed to obey as well as to rule and it is a President who will do its work and obey its behests whom the nation needs. The very fact that, after by turns exciting the suspicion, he has won the confidence of all parties, proves his fitness for the highest post in the Commonwealth. A President should be a practical statesman, not a theorist—a man of deeds rather than of words the executive of the national will, not the apostle of his own self-will. He has no right to a policy which is not tlie policy of the nation, and in his office he belongs neither to his party nor himself, but to the nation which has elected him to its temporary headship."

THE LaCrossc Democrat—the organ of the Northwestern Democracy —says "Gov. SEYMODII is trying to put the public mind asleep upon the bond question, and leave the plowholders to sweat, and stagger, and starve, under the load of taxation, to pay the bondholders their semi annual interest in gold, and tlicir taxes in addition, by telling the country that the financial question should not be brought into the canvass this year, that everything is well enough as it is, if you will only make the Government economize in its expenditures, and that a generation hence will be time enough to talk about the national debt. How false and deceptive."

The passenger train on the Boston, Clinton & Fitehburg Railroad was thrown from the track in consequence of running over a cow. The smoking car, in which there were some twenty five passengers, was broken into frag^i mcnts and several passengers seriously injured,